From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, paulus@samba.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers.
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:21:25 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070403.182125.77058566.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070404021924.71e87580@the-village.bc.nu>
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 02:19:24 +0100
> > I totally agree with Paul, the onboard serial device should get
> > ttyS0 regardless of what hardare is used to drive it.
>
> Thats between you and udev.
That might be true when udev exists, but it doesn't for the console
specification on the kernel command line.
I don't care about ordering, but the name matters just like "eth%d"
is the default name for all ethernet devices.
Using different majors for different instances of the exact same kind
of device is really not smart. It's a serial port, and if you try
to dress it up to be something else you run into all kinds of problems.
Not the least of which is the user has to scratch his head figuring
out what kind of chip drives his serial console, he just wants the
first serial port and he should have a way to say just that even
on the kernel command line.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 1:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-03 14:25 [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 20:37 ` Brad Boyer
2007-04-03 22:58 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 23:14 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-03 23:28 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 21:29 ` Brad Boyer
2007-04-03 23:57 ` David Woodhouse
[not found] ` <200704032210 02.GA13210@cynthia.pants.nu>
2007-04-03 22:10 ` Brad Boyer
2007-04-04 0:54 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 23:09 ` Brad Boyer
2007-04-04 1:38 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04 2:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-04 1:57 ` David Lang
2007-04-04 8:51 ` Russell King
2007-04-04 9:48 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-04-04 16:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-04 16:22 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-04-04 16:34 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-04 17:38 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-04-04 1:16 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 1:28 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04 1:07 ` David Lang
2007-04-04 1:44 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04 1:23 ` David Lang
2007-04-04 1:32 ` David Lang
2007-04-04 16:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-04 17:50 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-04-04 1:50 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 11:14 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04 12:20 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-04-04 1:48 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 3:07 ` Gerhard Mack
2007-04-11 16:30 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-04-12 15:34 ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-13 2:45 ` Gerhard Mack
2007-04-13 2:24 ` David Lang
2007-04-13 8:09 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-04-04 0:02 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 0:12 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 22:14 ` Brad Boyer
2007-04-04 1:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-04 1:17 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 1:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-04 0:01 ` [PATCH v2] " David Woodhouse
2007-04-04 1:25 ` [PATCH] " Alan Cox
2007-04-04 4:20 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04 5:19 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-04 5:50 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 7:04 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-04-04 13:43 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2007-04-04 7:52 ` Russell King
2007-04-04 8:41 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 5:53 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04 6:03 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-04 6:31 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04 14:19 ` [PATCH v3] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers; optionally David Woodhouse
2007-04-04 23:48 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-05 12:45 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-05 22:53 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-05 22:59 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-05 14:31 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-04-05 14:47 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-05 15:09 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-04-05 15:18 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-05 15:49 ` Atsushi Nemoto
2007-04-05 15:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-04-04 8:12 ` [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers David Miller
2007-04-04 8:38 ` Russell King
2007-04-04 8:43 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 9:00 ` Russell King
2007-04-04 19:58 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 12:21 ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-04 16:10 ` Russell King
2007-04-04 16:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-04 16:25 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04 17:41 ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-04 18:15 ` Russell King
2007-04-04 19:50 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-05 6:05 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-05 8:50 ` Russell King
2007-04-05 16:15 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-04-05 21:41 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-03 23:56 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 1:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-04 6:58 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04 14:16 ` David Woodhouse
2007-04-03 23:55 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 1:19 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04 1:21 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-04-04 1:36 ` Alan Cox
2007-04-04 1:47 ` David Miller
2007-04-04 7:47 ` Russell King
2007-04-04 9:55 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-04 16:06 ` Russell King
2007-04-04 6:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-08-14 11:49 ` Olaf Hering
2007-08-14 11:53 ` David Woodhouse
2007-08-14 16:24 ` Olaf Hering
2007-04-04 7:55 ` Olaf Hering
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